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Description: This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their sexuality, and when queer resistance coalescedMore...

This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their sexuality, and when queer resistance coalesced into a turbulent, joyous liberation movement-one whose lasting influence would ultimately inform and profoundly shape the LGBT community of today.Personal essays explore the philosophy and culture of the stridently anti-assimilationist GLF: the actions, demonstrations, and marches; views on marriage, religion, and gender; the drugs, orgies, and communes; and GLFrsquo;s relationship to the hippies, the Black Panthers, the straight Left, the womenrsquo;s movement, civil rights, and the antiwar struggle.

Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a member of GLF at Temple University and a co-founder of Radicalqueens, is author of Between Little Rock and a Hard Place and co-editor of Hey Paesan: Writings by Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent and Avanti Popolo: Sailing beyond Columbus . He lives in San Francisco, where he is a housing rights activist and a regular contributor to beyondchron.org, SF Bay Guardian , Bay Area Reporter and Bay Times .

Introduction

Out of the Bars and Into the Streets

Militant Foreshadowings

Eighth Grade Epiphany

Kiyoshi Kuromiya: Intergrating the Issues

A Consciousness Raised

Coming Out and into the GLF: Banned No More in Boston

My Adventures as a Gay Teacher

Pre-Now

My Memories as a Gay Militant in NYC

From the Closets of New Haven to the Collectives of New York GLF

Even Iowa Homos Got the Blues

There's a Certain Kind of Woman

A Poem

Tuning In

No Girl in My Soup

Coming Out as a Reluctant Activist in a Gay Maoist Cell who Mostly Just Wanted to Get Laid

Our Passion Shook the World

Sylvester: A Singer Without a Closet

Living Lesbian Nation

Radical Spirit and Vision

Radicalqueens Manifesto #1

Radicalqueens Manifesto #2

The Radicalqueens Trans-Formation

A Woman of Vision

Sisters and Brothers: A Writer Hungering for Family Finds GLF

Dyketactics!: Electrifying the Imaginations of the Gay and Women's Communities

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